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A Japanese izakaya chain has discontinued its “face slap service” after receiving a customer complaint about injury and fearing a blow to its reputation. ( read original story ...)

From mindfully thought-out food arrangements to ringing the temple bells, here's how locals celebrate the New Year in Japan. ( read original story ...)

Nissan and Honda plan to enter into negotiations for a merger to better compete in the rapidly changing automotive industry, the Nikkei newspaper reported. ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Rubber has broken ground on a $483 million passenger tire plant in Hangzhou, China, that's intended to replace an older factory in the same district. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s government plans to decisively back the expansion of nuclear power, dropping a decade-long policy of reducing dependence on the energy source and reversing curbs initiated following the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. ( read original story ...)

South Korea has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons, with a brief spell of martial law, continuing political uncertainty and market ructions. But the sharp underperformance of the country’s equity market long predates the turmoil involving recently impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. ( read original story ...)

President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that a Japanese tech conglomerate will make a multi-billion dollar investment in the U.S. and claimed it will create scores of new jobs in artificial intelligence tech. ( read original story ...)

Paul Watson, an anti-whaling activist who found fame on the television show Whale Wars, was arrested in Greenland earlier this year under a Japanese arrest warrant. ( read original story ...)

Japan had asked Denmark to extradite Watson, who had been in custody in Greenland since his arrest this summer. ( read original story ...)